Stephen J. Shoemaker, "Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption"

 

1 November 2020 will mark the 70^th anniversary of the dogmatising of the Bodily Assumption of Mary as a de fide dogma in Roman Catholicism. Due to such, I think it is apropos to plug one of my favourite books, not just on the topic of the Dormition and Assumption, but Mariology as a whole:

 

 

Stephen J. Shoemaker, Ancient Traditions of the Virgin Mary's Dormition and Assumption (Oxford Early Christian Studies) 

The book is pretty expensive, even as a paperback on Amazon. However, at the time of writing, it appears that they are working on a relatively inexpensive Kindle version.

On the Assumption itself, see, for e.g., Refuting Taylor Marshall on the Bodily Assumption of Mary